It was quite a big job. At first I tried templates but left the drawing lines around the templates. It's only a matter of millimeters but it did not fit. Pulling of the freezer paper was disturbing the fabric (I used woven fabric). So I started again. Now making one fabric out of strips, working very precisely. I ironed a strip template of Floriani (wash and fusible) on the back.

Dit is de voorkant van de strokenlap. De strook knipte ik dan vier keer uit met naadtoeslag.Here is the front of the fabric. I than cut out the strip 4 times.

The colours are perhaps not what you would expect for a knitting roll. I just used the cooton I halready had in my closet. I like the bright colours and it feels like summer doesn't it? Have a nice day,

This is my first post about Esther Aliu's Free historic BOM. I am as far as the first picture shows. I hope to catch up a little. I joined the Yahoo group early but started late. This week I jumped into the project. I'm using my stash of Japanese fabrics. Probably a little bit unusual for the project but as you can see in the picture the colours do fit in our living room. I had to buy a bit more fabric for example for the background and some fat quarters in blue and green.

About making the first ring from the fabric with the stars:After making the compass ( with a paperpiecing method) I placed it on top (face down) of the stars fabric and pinned the compass in place. I basted the compass to the fabric, with my featherweight (biggest stitch length).

The top once more with the Japanese woven fabrics around the compass. They are not the easiest fabrics to work with but I did not give up ;) To the next bit. It is a big project but I like the idea of making one part every month like homework, nice homework in this case!

The weather is beautiful here and it will be very warm in the coming week. I don't like t be in the hot sun but working on this top in the shade would be nice.

After I finished the black and white border I knew I was done! It is the middle part of Brigitte Giblins pattern called 'Anna Brereton quilt' from her book 'Featherng the nest'. I started this just to practise making hexagons around a panel of one fabric piece. The size of my hexies are 3/4 inch (on the sides), the ones in the book are bigger. It is fun to make.

Yesterday I started making the border and mittered the corners. The border fabric is from a costume women used to wear in the early days 9 and some still do today)on Marken, The Netherlands. It is not printed but woven.

I like the back fabric. It has been a sheet. It was unused lying in the closet of my parents in law for 40 years. It is to stiff to quilt through but good for a coverlet like this. I made it like Brigitte without batting and no quilting.

Nog een keertje buiten in mijn volkstuintje.

One more time in my allotment.

En hier ligt hij binnen op de ronde tafel met bloemen uit de tuin. Ik wil graag nog eens een coverlet maken, misschien nog meer uit hetzelfde boek. Er staan héél veel mooie dingen in, dus dat wordt nog moeilijk kiezen.And finally inside on the round table with yellow flowers from the garden. I would like to make another one maybe from the same book. There are so many beautiful patterns in the boo, it might be difficult to choose.

You can follow my blog now with Bloglovin by clicking on the link above.It seems complicated to me, but to subscribe to this I had to make a new post this way. Until next post with more fun things to see.

Number three..........Nice to see how big the difference is between cold blocks and this warm block. I learn from every quilt by choosing between light/dark and cold/warm contrasts, but especially from working on thisquilt.

And in the evening when I want to sit with my legs on the sofa, I like to work on this project from the book Feathering the nest of Brigitte Giblin . I only noticed thea when I started I didn't look at her measurements in the book. My hexagons are 1/4 inch big and hers are 1 inch big at the sides. So my top is much smaller. I filled the corners with the colours from the hexagons in the middle. I like it much better this way, before it looked more like 7 blocks who didn't belong together. I hope to work on the first border this afternoon. I will come back to you when it is finished.

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Welcome to my blog. Here I'd like to share my progress in the quilts and projects I sew. I'm interested in many styles and new techniques. Besides the sewing you'll find pictures of other creativeness, my dachshund, nature and places of Interest.